2 Kings 8:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 And to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
  • 2 Sam 7:12-13 : 12 And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall come out of your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  • 2 Sam 7:15 : 15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his aid and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5 : 4 Nevertheless, for David's sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem. 5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 2 Kgs 19:34 : 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
  • 2 Chr 21:7 : 7 However, the LORD would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
  • Jer 33:25-26 : 25 Thus says the LORD: If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
  • Hos 11:9 : 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One among you, and I will not enter the city.
  • Luke 1:32-33 : 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 21:7-8
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    7However, the LORD would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

    8In his days, the Edomites revolted from under Judah's rule and set up a king of their own.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
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    4Nevertheless, for David's sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.

    5Because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-25
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    76%

    24Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you also spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    15You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

    16Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that your children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as you have walked before me.

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
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    34However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes.

  • 1 Kgs 11:36
    74%

    36And to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
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    38And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

    39And I will for this afflict the offspring of David, but not forever.

  • Jer 33:17
    73%

    17For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
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    5Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:18
    72%

    18Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man to be ruler in Israel.

  • Ps 132:10-12
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    10For Your servant David's sake, do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

    11The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

    12If your children will keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
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    12Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

    13However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen.

  • Ps 89:33
    71%

    33Nevertheless my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
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    20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

  • 1 Sam 20:15
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    15But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever: no, not when the LORD has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
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    7Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he remains steadfast to obey my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

  • Ps 89:35-36
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    35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.

    36His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

  • Jer 22:30
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    30Thus says the LORD, Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    69%

    8And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you: yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in my eyes;

  • 2 Sam 7:15
    69%

    15But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
    69%

    8And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore out of the land that I gave their ancestors, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

  • 1 Sam 12:22
    69%

    22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • 2 Sam 21:7
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    7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    69%

    18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • Ps 89:28-30
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    69%

    28My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

    29His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

    30If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments;

  • 1 Kgs 8:19
    69%

    19Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your body, he shall build the house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
    68%

    5Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons by a covenant of salt?

  • 1 Chr 17:13-14
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    68%

    13I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you:

    14But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.

  • Ezek 17:14
    68%

    14That the kingdom might be lowly, that it might not lift itself up, but by keeping his covenant it might stand.

  • 1 Chr 28:4
    68%

    4However the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel:

  • Jer 33:21
    68%

    21Then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant, so that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.

  • Amos 9:8
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    8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
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    19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
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    19And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

  • 2 Kgs 13:23
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    23The LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and had regard for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, nor cast them from his presence as yet.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
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    16Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
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    12Elijah the prophet sent him a letter, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of David your father, says: Because you have not followed the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or Asa king of Judah,